On March 1 2018, Akihiro Tawara, a visiting researcher from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, presented his latest research titled “The Obscure Fate of the Luminous Spirit: Avicenna’s Treatise on Cardiac Drugs and Qutb al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī’s al-Tuhfa al-Sa’dīyah (Commentary on Avicenna’s Canon of Medicine, Book One) to the ETI team.